A synthetic arabinose-inducible promoter confers high levels of recombinant protein expression in hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus islandicus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 5630-5637

  Peng, Nan ^a,b   Deng, Ling ^b   Mei, Yuxia ^a   Jiang, Dongqing ^a   Hu, Yongmei ^a   Awayez, Mariana ^b   Liang, Yunxiang ^a   She, Qunxin ^b  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL; CODING SEQUENCES; EXPRESSION SYSTEM; EXPRESSION VECTORS; FUSION GENES; GENETIC STUDIES; HIS-TAG; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC ARCHAEA; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC ARCHAEON; LOW-YIELD; N-TERMINALS; PEPTIDE TAGS; PROTEIN EXPRESSIONS; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN PRODUCTIONS; TARGET GENE EXPRESSION;

AMINO ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROORGANISMS; PEPTIDES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

BIOSYNTHESIS;

ARABINOSE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SULFOLOBUS;

ARABINOSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SULFOLOBUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ISLANDICUS;

EID: 84866173365     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00855-12     Document Type: Article

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